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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+If you have pieces of code or documentation to contribute, then, in order to
+install them into our [[source_repositories]], you have to assign the copyright
+of your changes to the [Free Software Foundation](http://www.fsf.org/).
+
+The assignment for [[GNU Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] additionally covers
+[[microkernel/mach/mig/GNU_MIG]] (which used to be a component of GNU Mach, and
+logically still is).
+
+The assignment for [[GNU Hurd|hurd]] additionally covers the separate
+[[source_repositories/incubator]], [[libpthread]], [[hurd/translator/procfs]],
+[[hurd/translator/unionfs]], [[microkernel/viengoos]],
+[[web|contributing/web_pages]] repositories, and possibly more.
+
+Amongst others, the assignments for [[binutils]], [[GCC]], [[GDB]], [[glibc]]
+are separate ones.
+
+Please [[contact_us]] to request the needed forms.